Photos: Sports stars behind bars

U.S. boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is serving an 87-day jail sentence for the domestic battery of the mother of Mayweather’s two children.

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NFL quarterback Michael Vick spent 21 months behind bars for after pleading guilty to ‘Conspiracy to Travel in Interstate Commerce in Aid of Unlawful Activities and to Sponsor a Dog in an Animal Fighting Venture’ — in other words, dogfighting.Jim McIsaac
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Former National Football League receiver Rae Carruth (Carolina Panthers) was in 2001 found guilty of conspiring to murder the woman who at the time was carrying his child. He is still serving a prison sentence.Reuters files
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Former NHL player Mike Danton (St. Louis Blues) was convicted for conspiracy to murder after admitting to hiring a hitman to take out his agent in 2004.Canwest News Service

Former Major League Baseball player Lenny Dykstra was convicted of grand theft auto and filing false financial statements, and is serving a three-year prison sentence.File
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National Football League receiver Plaxico Burress was sentenced to two years in prison for two counts of criminal possession of a weapon. Last year, he had a sub-par season with the New York Jets, and he is currently a free agent.Getty
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Former long-time NHL enforcer Bob Probert at one point spent 90 days behind bars for smuggling drugs past the Canada-U.S border. Probert died in 2010.Steve Bosch
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Former New York Mets star Darryl Strawberry spent nearly a year in prison because of probation violations stemming from drug-possession charges.Nick Laham
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Jamal Lewis was a star National Football League running back, principally for the Baltimore Ravens. He also at one point served four months in jail for using a cellphone to try to set up a drug deal.Doug Pensinger
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